Chapter ◑⬤ 01

Blood.

There was blood everywhere.

Amazonita’s eyes stared at his face with a frightened expression and Kalias just smiled without any emotion being expressed on his face. A macabre smile, almost lifeless.

"I finally found you," he said.

"You are the goddess of the moon," he said and the sound of bones being broken beneath the feet of that absurdly tall man, made the black-haired girl shrink against the wall where she had been thrown. “And now you will be mine".

Those were the only words that were addressed to Alice. The only thing that was said to her before something hit her neck and her eyes opened in a dark room inside an abandoned castle.

There were no doors, there was no light. Just a window, a large bed with canopy and of course, the moonlight that made it possible for her - to see.

In the corner of the dark room, there were two big eyes lurking.

“Who the hell are you?” The girl was the first to speak, the body shrunk, the arms embracing her own body as if that was enough to protect herself.

“You act like you don’t know” A hoarse, guttural voice was squeezed from the man’s throat in the dark.

"All I know is that you killed all those people" Alice said sinking her nails into her own skin "you’re a monster!"

The man let out a low, mocking laugh.

"And what did you do to me?" He soon asked, but his voice had no joy or amusement, no. It was pure rancor.

"You abandoned me" He said "I prayed every night, begged, crawled in the mud as usurpers took the front of my Alcathea, while mine were killed, destroyed" he spat every word as if poison dripped from his mouth.

Alice took a step back.

"You’re crazy" she said softly and laughed, a lifeless laugh.

"Yeah, I went crazy, but you know what the fun part is?" His eyes shone as he questioned her "it is this madman who is with you now, and until you wake up..." Kalias smiled "you’re just a human, a human who can be hurt and easily beaten, so measure your fucking words"

Alice shrank, the body finding the wall behind her.

"Will you kill me like you did them?" she asked even if her instincts told her to shut up.

Kalias laughed.

"Why would I bother killing you? No, for everything to work as it should, you need to be alive" he said as his body moved in darkness and his steps could be heard by the girl.

He was getting closer.

"You won’t die, my goddess, because I need you"

Kalias' body was now close to hers, his eyes fixed on the weak little creature, he almost wondered if that thing was really that goddess. The goddess of the night and all the creatures in it.

"You may not have awakened yet, you may not remember if you don’t want to..., but that won’t save you from me" Kalias completed "your negligence made me what I am now, so deal with the consequences"

One of his hands grabbed the girl’s hip, fingers squeezing hard against that skin that was thin as paper and even if there was resistance, he brought her close to his body, brought her close enough for their lips to meet.

Alice tried to push him away with her hands over his chest, but Kalias was stronger, always would be - after all he was a werewolf.

"You will be mine, Aynur" he growled as his lips parted and Alice’s body was abruptly dropped.

Aynur.

That name did ring out.

"That’s not my name," she said trembling, her eyes full of tears.

"When the blood moon comes, you will awaken" Kalias began, body tense, eyes dull and lifeless "if you’re right, I’ll kill you. I will tear out your heart and give it as a sacrifice to the fire, but if I am right, as I know I am, then you will awaken, Aynur the goddess of the night of all beings born with it; and by then, you will have fallen in love with me".

'This will never happen' was what was written on the girl’s face, a face covered in contempt.

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